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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

And all of you idiots must be illiterate.

Read the ****ing article. It addresses exactly the point Anyong was trying to make.

That author's position is that for a safety to crowd the box, he essentially has to be within 10 yardsish of the LOS or be cheating that way at the snap. You don't have to throw it 40 yards downfield to keep him honest; a simple 20 yarder will accomplish that same thing.

That's why he classifies passes in the 20 yard range as deep passes - precisely because they do exactly what you militantly ignorant mouth-breathers are arguing for. A safety cannot crowd the box if he has to worry about as much as Kelce getting in behind him 18 yards downfield for a catch and run.

And again, Foles actually threw MORE passes near the line of scrimmage than Smith did in that game. You want to talk about plays that get safeties cheating up; an increased really short passes will absolutely do that. All Anyong is saying is read the goddamn article before you sit here saying that Foles is going to be backing safeties off more than Smith - there's a solid argument to be made that he actually won't be based on his small sample size here.

The guy's buying you books and you idiots are eating the pages and then patting each other other the back. Militantly ignorant isn't a good look.

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